Almstrom, Marion Edward “Edward”
Marjorie Elsie (Carter) Almstrom
Father: Anders Albin Almstrom (1864-1932)
Mother: May (Starks) Almstrom (1871-1951)
Sister: Ina (Almstrom) Ford
Brothers: Winfield Starks Almstrom (1901-1977); Adne Albin Almstrom (1906-1966); Emil Maurice Almstrom (1903-1985)
Edward Almstrom was born on March 18, at Phoenix, BC. He married Marjorie Carter, a secretary at the YWCA in Vancouver, on December 17, 1947 in Vancouver. At the time of his marriage he was working as a civil engineer for the Dominion Government and living in Vancouver. He died in Whitehorse, Yukon, in 1960 and is buried in the Whitehorse Pioneer Cemetery.
The family came from Phoenix, BC in October 1920.
He was a class leader in the Princeton Public School (1920), on the honor roll (1921, 1922). He was promoted from Grade 5 to Grade 6 from the Princeton Superior School in 1924. He took his “fourth year high school work” at Trail in 1929. He graduated from Princeton High School in 1929 [source?] and then attended the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, according to a US Border Crossing document dated March 11, 1939.
He won the “Boys, 13 yrs.” foot race at the 1924 Dominion Day celebrations.
CanadaGenWeb’s Cemetery Project; US Border Crossings, March 11, 1939; Princeton Star, November 19, 1920, page 1; May 6, 1921, page 1; June 30, 1922, page 1; July 6, 1923, page 1; July 3, 1924, page 1; September 12, 1929, page 5